The shipping industry in 2023 is characterized by cautious consumer spending and sluggish container demand growth, coupled with the looming risks of oversupply

Against the prevailing narrative of the The Belt and Road as a top-down strategy to spread China’s geopolitical influence, there is the BRI’s impact through its first decade as emanating «from the middle out and bottom up» via transport-enabled corridors traversing a large number of regions within and across national territories.